Amazon.com description: Product Description: Frequent and thorough analysis of value creation in closely held or family controlled business is critical to effect ongoing management of the enterprise. Such monitoring will reveal the success or failure of the management in meeting the strategic goals and in creating value and wealth for the shareholders. The Seven Deadly Sins of Business Valuation identifies and discusses some of the challenges inherent in monitoring value creation and illustrates with examples and case studies several of the most common valuation errors that a financial analyst may make in analyzing a closely held or family controlled business.